Yet, while the old men's discipline seemed associated with duties towards a collective, and obedience to governmental hierarchies, the young KEMRI/CDC staff were less subservient, nor did they invoke an ethics of service or the wish to build a healthy nation.
As a society obsessed with time measurement, we risk not only ignoring the daydreaming needs of unpunctual children, and missing out on a natural calendar and a social sense of the "ripe" time, but more sinisterly we practise – daily, hourly and minutely – a collective servility, a chronic habit of obedience to a machine of our own invention.
Just in the way that corporations are primitively loath to embrace a rival, Trump is banking on his party's collective aversion to risk and a slavish obedience to old-school influence strategy.
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, an Italian and the senior cardinal present, led them in a collective oath, in Latin, to maintain secrecy and obedience to the constitution on papal transition.
During the opening parade-ground section, Kay choreographs the marching and manoeuvres with an eagle eye for detail, capturing the collective tension of the soldiers' bodies, the fixed obedience in their eyes.
For the people who shop at Pomegranate, the collective covenant with God is the primary reality and obedience to the laws is the primary obligation.
(a) Unquestioning obedience.
"Obedience comes from listening".
"OBEDIENCE" July 22 at Borders.
OBEDIENCE, by Will Lavender.
